On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:31:20 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Thank you. I won't opt for LaTeX :-)
Well that would have been my tool of choice for drawing the lines. But I don't see the necessity for lines anyway. Why not just crop the PDFs with pdfcrop so that the images can be laid on top of these pages, whatever they are. Will that convince? You haven't said whether these images of scores are fragmentary or whole pages. Are the 25 files each one page, or does each file have a multipage score? If each page is like a conventional score with the same margin layout, then draw the lines in any package you're comfortable with. If you now take your score PDF and the lines PDF and run them through pdftk score.pdf multistamp lines.pdf output final.pdf The sole/last page of lines.pdf will be used until score.pdf is exhausted and will overprint each page. > For my part, my knowledge of GIMP is > sufficient that if it came to it, I'd output PNG, open in GIMP, and create > the boxes. It doesn't take very long to do that, but I've 25 output files > and doing this for each of them is, well ... :-) Drawing lines in Gimp is for one-offs. Its interactivity is its power. But it's not a good tool for the above because you're doing the work instead of the computer. And, as I said before, PNG is not an appropriate format either. > Was hoping it might be > easier to add some kind of \markup to the lilypond source. Not looking so > easy though. Well, it might be. It makes the same assumption that I made above: the dimensions of the lines are the same. But you have to put markup commands for each LP page (too many doesn't matter). Finally, you should take into consideration the benefits each method brings to you. Being familiar with a tool like pdftk brings huge benefits apart from this little problem. You're able to burst, collate, shuffle, rotate, stamp, watermark, encrypt and decrypt etc. Pdfcrop is so useful for inserting document fragments into other documents. I must insert a plug here for pdfjam for shifting, scaling, angular rotations, more shuffling, and producing N-up copies. These are real productivity tools for PDF documents. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
